WoRMS taxon details
Kyphometopa Krapp-Schickel, 2013
744517 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:744517)
accepted
Genus
Kyphometopa medipa (Krapp-Schickel, 1996) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Krapp-Schickel, T. (2013). On Austral-Antarctic Stenothoids (Amphipoda), part 3: Torometopa, Scaphodactylus and two new genera. <em>Crustaceana.</em> 86(7-8): 829-852. [details] Available for editors 
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Etymology While Torometopa has a small lobe on the basis of P5, the species in this group have often a rather long and wide...
Etymology While Torometopa has a small lobe on the basis of P5, the species in this group have often a rather long and wide posterodistal lobe. The former group carries a bulge or “torus” (Latin) at their basis, whereas the latter prefix, “kyphos” (Greek) stresses that they have built an already larger “hump”. The gender of the new name is feminine. [details]
Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Kyphometopa Krapp-Schickel, 2013. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=744517 on 2025-05-28
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Etymology While Torometopa has a small lobe on the basis of P5, the species in this group have often a rather long and wide posterodistal lobe. The former group carries a bulge or “torus” (Latin) at their basis, whereas the latter prefix, “kyphos” (Greek) stresses that they have built an already larger “hump”. The gender of the new name is feminine. [details]
